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Olivier winner leads legal aid drama

Published: 27 May 2015

Former Olivier Award winner Niall Buggy will lead a cast that also includes Nicholas Bailey, Alexandra Gilbreath, Scott Karim and Sirine Saba in the world premiere of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s The… Read More

Wicked star leads Elegies charity concert

Published: 27 May 2015

Emma Hatton, Daniel Boys and Ian McIntosh will be among more than 30 West End stars taking to the stage of the Criterion Theatre for a one-off charity concert of… Read More

Sylvie Guillem honoured by Sadler’s

Published: 27 May 2015

Retiring dance star Sylvie Guillem, who received the Special Award at this year’s Olivier Awards with MasterCard, has been named Associate Artist Emeritus by Sadler’s Wells. The performer, who has… Read More

James Freedman: Picking a pocket or two

Published: 27 May 2015

James Freedman is a disconcerting man with whom to chat. You’ll be passing the time of day, discussing the weather or your shared childhood memories, when suddenly and without warning… Read More

Shows announced for Kids Week 2015

Published: 27 May 2015

Kids Week has announced the shows that will be offering free tickets to children this August and, with more than 40 top London shows taking part from Charlie And The… Read More

The Beaux’ Stratagem

Published: 27 May 2015

What’s it all about? Two industrious chaps who, having fallen on relatively hard times, intend to cure their economic ailment by tricking a well-endowed – monetarily-speaking – woman into marrying… Read More

The Big Interview: Kristin Scott Thomas

Published: 26 May 2015

Dame Kristin Scott Thomas. It is a name that conjures many a synonym; glamour, class, talent, regality. The last being particularly pertinent since the Olivier Award-winning star of films including… Read More

Peter Pan at the Open Air theatre

Published: 22 May 2015

What’s it all about? Seven boys with a severe mother complex and the perils of leaving a dog in charge of your kids. Unless you’ve been living in your own… Read More

Webbe leads Three Little Pigs musical

Published: 22 May 2015

Simon Webbe, Gareth Gates, Leanne Jones and Taofique Folarin will star in Stiles & Drewe’s brand new family musical The Three Little Pigs at the Palace Theatre this summer. Following… Read More

November end for The Commitments

Published: 21 May 2015

The Commitments has announced it will conclude its two year run in the West End this November. The page to stage adaptation has been entertaining audiences with its classic soul… Read More

As You Like It at Shakespeare’s Globe

Published: 21 May 2015

What’s it all about? Love, that many-splendored thing, in all its forms; romantic, patriarchal, sisterly, brotherly, platonic. Have I missed any? In the Forest of Arden a merry Duke hides,… Read More

In his words: Peter Pan’s Hiran Abeysekera

Published: 20 May 2015

Could there ever be a better place to stage J M Barrie’s classic tale than the enchanting natural surroundings of the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre? Even before we spoke… Read More

McQueen at St James theatre

Published: 20 May 2015

What’s it all about? Steve? No. The other Steve? Still no. Alexander? You got it! Yes, those who have somehow avoided the hype surrounding the world premiere of James Phillips’… Read More

Exclusive: Lisa Faulkner West End recipe

Published: 20 May 2015

To celebrate the first ever West End Bake Off, actor and MasterChef winning cook Lisa Faulkner has created an amazing Matilda The Musical-inspired recipe card perfect for theatre fans with… Read More

Cerys Matthews makes NT music debut

Published: 20 May 2015

Musician Cerys Matthews will compose the music for the National Theatre’s forthcoming production of Our Country’s Good, marking the Catatonia star’s stage writing debut. The latest in a string of… Read More

Bad Jews extends Arts Theatre run

Published: 20 May 2015

Bad Jews will continue to wreak havoc in the West End through to July after adding an additional six weeks to its already hugely successful run at the Arts Theatre.… Read More

World Factory

Published: 20 May 2015

What's it all about? This is a difficult question to answer. Part theatre production, part board game, World Factory is about creating your own storyline, a storyline that will differ… Read More

Cast revealed for 1984’s West End return

Published: 19 May 2015

Matthew Spencer will take on the role of Winston Smith when Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan’s hit adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984 returns to the Playhouse Theatre this summer. Spencer,… Read More

Q&A: Jim Dale

Published: 18 May 2015

Jim Dale has had a busy life. By most standards, busy might mean holding down a successful 9-5 career, maybe having a couple of kids, fitting in a holiday here… Read More

Beautiful Thing cancels West End run

Published: 18 May 2015

The Arts Theatre dates of seminal drama Beautiful Thing have been cancelled by the show’s producers. The production, which stars Charlie Brooks and Gerard McCarthy, had been due to play… Read More

Cynthia Erivo leads New World cast

Published: 18 May 2015

Rising musical theatre star Cynthia Erivo will lead the cast of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs For A New World when it plays at the St James Theatre this summer. Erivo,… Read More

Christopher Biggins is Bake Off judge

Published: 18 May 2015

Christopher Biggins will join Barbara Windsor to judge the tasty theatrical treats on offer at the first ever West End Bake Off this weekend. The West End equivalent of Paul… Read More

Video: Jamie Campbell Bower

Published: 15 May 2015

After months of anticipation, the cast of Bend It Like Beckham The Musical will perform for the very first time tonight as the screen to stage musical adaptation makes its… Read More

High Society

Published: 15 May 2015

What’s it all about? The very rich being very badly behaved. The answer to ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ might be a resounding ‘I don’t’ from the characters in… Read More

David Hare premiere for Hampstead

Published: 15 May 2015

David Hare’s latest play, the Glyndebourne-inspired The Moderate Soprano, will receive its world premiere at Hampstead Theatre this autumn. Starring Roger Allam, the latest work from the Skylight playwright, which… Read More

Motown The Musical heads to West End

Published: 15 May 2015

Broadway hit Motown The Musical has confirmed it will open in the West End next February at the Shaftesbury Theatre, bringing the legendary story of Berry Gordy and the musical… Read More

Jane Asher & daughter lead Park’s Leaves

Published: 15 May 2015

Jane Asher will star alongside her daughter Katie Scarfe in the world premiere of Andrew Keatley’s The Gathered Leaves at the Park Theatre this summer. The production, which is directed… Read More

Death Of A Salesman at the Noël Coward theatre

Published: 14 May 2015

What’s it all about? The nightmare that is the American Dream; the notion that in a land of abundant opportunity any hard-working schmuck can rise to the top. They can’t,… Read More

Bugsy Malone extends to September

Published: 14 May 2015

The Lyric Hammersmith’s triumphant revival of Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone has extended its run to 5 September. The show, which rather than the best at being bad is actually very… Read More

Introducing… Harry Melling

Published: 14 May 2015

Theatre critics be warned, Harry Melling is coming to get you. Following his hugely successful one-man debut play, Peddling, he’s working on his second piece and this time not only… Read More

Peter Bowles leaves Stop!… The Play

Published: 13 May 2015

Veteran performer Peter Bowles has left the new West End comedy Stop!... The Play just weeks before its first performance at the Trafalgar Studio 2. Bowles, best known for TV… Read More

Billy Elliot “never been more current”

Published: 13 May 2015

Billy Elliot The Musical first pirouetted onto the London stage 10 years ago, but in the light of the recent election “it has never been more current” its writer Lee… Read More

Dinosaur Zoo returns to London

Published: 13 May 2015

Dinosaur Zoo, the hit family show, returns to London this summer, giving young theatregoers another chance to acquaint themselves with the reptilian giants of the Jurassic period. The “tyrannosauric treat”,… Read More

Beyond Bollywood

Published: 12 May 2015

What’s it all about? Billed as “not just a musical but a theatrical experience”, this should read with the emphasis firmly on “experience”. It’s a dizzying, exuberant and energetic showcasing… Read More

In pictures: Stomp’s 13th birthday gala

Published: 12 May 2015

Stomp, the cacophonous West End sensation, already feels a little like a 13-year-old. Certainly me as a 13-year-old. All that banging and crashing and thumping about, misusing everything they can… Read More

Hay Fever at the Noël Coward theatre

Published: 12 May 2015

What’s it all about? With spring pollen already out in force, we could do without any more hay fever in London at the moment. Thankfully, this isn’t THAT type of… Read More

New cast for Curious Incident

Published: 12 May 2015

Sion Daniel Young will follow his starring role in War Horse to lead the cast of another National Theatre West End long-runner when he joins The Curious Incident Of The… Read More

In pictures: A decade of Billy Elliot

Published: 12 May 2015

Billy Elliot The Musical is 10 years old. It’s almost as old as Billy, the character. The hit West End show, which has been entertaining London theatre fans for a… Read More

Billy Elliot turns 10 and extends

Published: 12 May 2015

Billy Elliot The Musical today celebrates an incredible decade in the West End and has marked the landmark birthday by extending its booking period to 17 December 2016. More than… Read More

West End has a Man Of Steal

Published: 12 May 2015

James Freedman: Man Of Steal will bring light-fingered, pickpocketing magic to the West End this summer when it transfers to the Trafalgar Studio 1 later this month. The show of… Read More

Full cast announced for The Seagull

Published: 11 May 2015

Danny Webb will join Janie Dee, Sabrina Bartlett and Matthew Tennyson in the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre’s forthcoming production of The Seagull. Webb, whose recent stage credits include The… Read More

X Factor winner joins Memphis The Musical

Published: 11 May 2015

Singer/songwriter Matt Cardle, who flew to fame winning the seventh series of X Factor, will join Olivier Award nominee Beverley Knight in the hit show Memphis The Musical. Cardle will… Read More

Phil Daniels joins Les Misérables

Published: 11 May 2015

Phil Daniels, Jeremy Secomb and Rachelle Ann Go will join Cameron Mackintosh’s legendary production of Les Misérables when the hit musical welcomes a new cast of Lovely Ladies (and gentlemen)… Read More

West End Bakes Off for charity

Published: 11 May 2015

The stars of London theatre will be flashing their fairy cakes, proudly presenting their buns and touting their Eccles cakes in aid of charity at the first West End Bake… Read More

Whose Line Is It Anyway? makes stage debut

Published: 11 May 2015

Clive Anderson will lead the line-up of performers set to appear in a new stage version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? when the live improv show receives its world… Read More

Steven Pinder joins Wicked cast

Published: 8 May 2015

Former Brookside star Steven Pinder will join the London cast of Olivier Award-winning musical Wicked this summer, taking on the role of Doctor Dillamond in the Oz-set show from 10… Read More

Kate O’Flynn joins Kinnear in Trial

Published: 8 May 2015

Kate O’Flynn will appear opposite double Olivier Award winner Rory Kinnear in Nick Gills’ adaptation of Franz Kafka’s The Trial when the production opens at the Young Vic next month.The… Read More

A Three-way split Vote

Published: 8 May 2015

There really was only one way to cover the Donmar Warehouse’s ground-breaking performance of The Vote, performed in the very minutes it is set while being simultaneously screened on More4:… Read More

First Look: McQueen stars’ new looks

Published: 7 May 2015

Glee star Dianna Agron promised us she’d be unrecognisable in McQueen when we met her at the Olivier Awards. She wasn’t joking, as these first images of the show’s stars… Read More

The Angry Brigade

Published: 7 May 2015

What’s it all about? All attention may be on James Graham’s The Vote today, but last night the press were treated to another of the writer’s riveting, raucous and politically… Read More

St James hosts Stardust Road premiere

Published: 7 May 2015

The St James Theatre will host the world premiere of Stardust Road, a new musical featuring the much-loved music of American composer Howard "Hoagy" Carmichael, this autumn. The inventive 20th… Read More

Exclusive! In rehearsal: Oresteia

Published: 7 May 2015

The Almeida Theatre’s Greek season has us as excited as a builder of giant wooden horses in the run up to Trojan War Appreciation Day, so imagine our delight at… Read More

Video: Mark Gatiss on The Vote

Published: 7 May 2015

Today is a day that will make the history books. Yes, it’s the day of the old GE. Or, as we like to call it, Great Entertainment. Because, while we’re… Read More

If the Matildas were PM…

Published: 6 May 2015

Matilda The Musical’s pint-sized stars named joint Prime Minister. It’s an unlikely – and wordy –headline to wake up to on Friday morning, we grant you, but what if, by… Read More

Family-friendly Hercules for Sadler’s autumn

Published: 6 May 2015

A new family production of Hercules will join much-loved favourites The Snowman, Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty and The Little Match Girl in Sadler’s Wells’ new autumn/winter season. Children of any… Read More

Sharon Small leads Hampstead’s Luna Gale

Published: 6 May 2015

Sharon Small will lead the cast of Luna Gale alongside Rachel Redford and Corey Johnson when the Rebecca Gilman play receives its UK premiere at the Hampstead Theatre in June.… Read More

About: The Audience

Published: 6 May 2015

What's it all about? Much like the news at the moment, this is about royals and prime ministers. While our current headlines are dominated by the individuals who stand a… Read More

Olivier winners lead West End LIVE

Published: 6 May 2015

Sunny Afternoon, this year’s Best New Musical Olivier Award winner, is one of the first shows confirmed to perform at 2015’s incredible West End LIVE with MasterCard. The biggest live,… Read More

New cast announced for Mamma Mia!

Published: 6 May 2015

Mazz Murray, Jo Napthine, Gabriella Williams and James Darch will become the latest performers to super troupe their way to the West End next month when they join Dianne Pilkington… Read More

Olivier winners lead Sadler’s autumn

Published: 5 May 2015

Olivier Award winners dominate Sadler’s Wells’ new season, with artists including Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sylvie Guillem, Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Matthew Bourne all presenting work across the capital as… Read More

Court reveals cast for Violence And Son

Published: 5 May 2015

Jason Hughes and Siwan Morris will lead the cast in the Royal Court Theatre’s forthcoming premiere of Gary Owen’s intimate new drama Violence And Son. The production, which will play… Read More

Video: The Play That Goes political

Published: 5 May 2015

It’s a common complaint that, beneath their party colours and characteristic style of rhetoric, all politicians are essentially exactly the same. In this week of political excitement however, we are… Read More

The Merchant Of Venice at Shakespeare’s Globe

Published: 2 May 2015

What’s it all about? This is Shakespeare's classic story about a merchant and a rather meaty loan demanded as payment by a Jewish moneylender. What begins as a comic tale,… Read More

Emma Rice is new Globe Artistic Director

Published: 1 May 2015

Kneehigh’s Emma Rice will succeed Dominic Dromgoole as Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe, taking the helm of the iconic venue from April 2016. Currently joint Artistic Director of Kneehigh, Rice’s… Read More

Exclusive: Jonathan Slinger as Willy Wonka

Published: 1 May 2015

Who’s this dapper looking chap, I hear you ask? It is, of course, Willy Wonka. Everyone knows that. But he may look a little different to how you remember him.… Read More

Amelia Lily leads American Idiot at Arts

Published: 1 May 2015

Former X Factor contestant Amelia Lily will lead the cast of American Idiot – The Musical when the Green Day-inspired hit hitches a ride to London’s Arts Theatre this summer.… Read More

Derek Jacobi joins Romeo And Juliet

Published: 1 May 2015

Derek Jacobi will be reunited with his Cinderella co-stars when he joins Lily James and Richard Madden in Kenneth Branagh’s 2016 production of Romeo And Juliet at the Garrick Theatre.… Read More

Inside Carrie rehearsals

Published: 30 April 2015

It’s a hot Thursday afternoon and I’m sitting on a hard wooden chair in front of an alter. A terrified teenager stares fixedly at the wooden cross in front of… Read More

In rehearsal: High Society

Published: 30 April 2015

A revival of a classic Cole Porter musical was always going to put us in high spirits. Finding out that Maria Friedman, the woman behind the Menier Chocolate Factory’s Olivier… Read More

Impossible magic show heads to West End

Published: 30 April 2015

West End audiences should prepare to be tricked, wowed and amazed with the forthcoming run of Impossible, an innovative new magic show set to receive its world premiere at the… Read More

Everyman

Published: 30 April 2015

What’s it all about? This is a morality play written so long ago – we’re talking older than Shakespeare – that its author is unknown. It’s about Everyman, an individual… Read More

Exclusive: Paul Barritt on Golem

Published: 29 April 2015

Watching Golem at the Young Vic last year was the first time the thought crossed my mind that, given the choice, I would gladly stay in my seat and watch… Read More

Northern Ballet’s Elves come to London

Published: 29 April 2015

Northern Ballet will bring its fairytale-inspired children’s ballet Elves & The Shoemaker to London for the first time next month, playing for one day only at the Royal Opera House.… Read More

Cast announced for Charing Cross Dusty

Published: 29 April 2015

Casting has been announced for Dusty, a new multimedia show celebrating the music of Dusty Springfield, which will receive its world premiere at the Charing Cross Theatre in June. The… Read More

La Soirée confirms London dates

Published: 29 April 2015

Olivier Award-winning cabaret spectacular La Soirée has confirmed dates for its forthcoming festive run, returning for yet another London season from 27 October to 17 January. The jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring show,… Read More
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